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A report released today in Geneva says Nigeria, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of Congo DRC have seen the largest increases in malaria cases, jeopardizing the gains recorded since 2000. The Roll Back Malaria Partnership, which released the report, said unprecedented global...

Nigeria, Somalia and Chad have the highest number of deaths from child pneumonia and diarrhoea in the world. This was contained in a report by the International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, U.S.A. The report, which was released...

No less than 45 million Nigerians, approximately 20 per cent of the population, are likely to suffer adverse mental health-related problems in their life time. Disclosing this in Lagos recently, Medical Director, Tranquil & Quest, Dr Otefe Edebi, said 1 in 5 persons in...

Polio vaccinators in Nigeria over the weekend joined more than 190000 of their counterparts from 12 other countries across west and central Africa to immunize more than 116 million children over the next week. The other countries include: Benin, Cameroon, Central African...

Mr. Bisi Adegoke, Rotary Governor, District 9125, said on Sunday that the Rotary Club was committing 100 million Dollars to prevent resurgence of polio meningitis in the country. Adegoke, who disclosed this at a news conference in Ilorin, said that $33 million was contributed by...

Over 196,000 adolescents, representing 10 per cent of the global burden, are said to be living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria with a high estimated number of AIDS-related deaths, according to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund’s HIV Specialist, Dr. Victoria Isiramen. She said...

More than two billion people could be at risk from Zika virus outbreaks in parts of Africa and Asia, according to scientists writing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Populations in India, Indonesia and Nigeria are some of the most vulnerable to transmission, the researchers...

More woes were on Wednesday added to the federal government in the health sector as workers under the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) embarked on a seven-day warning strike to press home the demands and agreements, which the federal government appears to have jettisoned. The...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday said it has in recent times arrested 8,778 suspected drug traffickers, as well as seized 903,624.56 kilograms of narcotics from both sellers and dealers. A further breakdown of the statistics of arrested suspects by the...

The Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, has finally put to rest the growing concerns about genetically modified organism (GMO), saying at present, no genetically modified organisms are officially grown in Nigeria. She therefore called on Nigerians not to panic over the...

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